User blog:Nashog/A Tale of Feathers

The peregrin's flew through the storm as the wind battered them.

"We should stop and set down we don't know where the next piece of shelter is" the male peregrin said.

"Agreed we may be used to those north winds but this is stretching it even for us" this time it was the female peregrin.

They began heading towards the ground when they saw a large stone building ahead of them. They flew towards it hoping there wasn't any vermin inside. They where far to tired to get into a fight now.

The skipper of otters was outside checking that a tree that had fallen in the storm the previous night hadn't smashed the fence that protected the strawberry patch from dibbuns. They had put the fence up the season before when a great group of dibbuns decided to eat a large amount of strawberries and had managed to crush about a quarter of the patch. He was routing through the branches in case there was a pear he could eat as he moved the fence when he felt a mass of feathers. Quickly he began snapping branches trying to get to whatever bird was stuck in the mass of branches. The bird started struggling trying to get out of the branches.

"Hold there matey I can get you out." Skipper said as he came face to face with a peregrin falcon who was clearly not amused. The bird kicked out breaking through some of the branches that bound her legs together.

"Don't try to help you keep pulling my feathers. Get my mate he is buried deeper and I think he got hurt in the leg. He keeps blacking out then coming back awake."

"Right you are we will get him out don't worry." He was eyeing the birds talons which he could tell where more than capable of gutting him. Whatever this bird was it was clearly a top predator and from the shape of its talons was no fishing bird. He struggled to get a heavy branch off what must be the birds mate since the female had managed to get herself free.

"Can you get to the main gate and tell one of the brothers or sisters to bring a stretcher. They should be trying to get the dibbuns ready for berry picking in the woods."

"Got it" she said winging off towards the main gate. Skipper sighed, this was going to be a long day.

A dibbun screamed as the peregrin set down next to the group of dibbuns. A sister came up to her making sure she kept herself between the dibbuns and the bird. The bird hopped up to her looming over the mouse.

"My mate is trapped under a tree that fell in the orchard. A otter is trying to help him but he needs a stretcher" she said this quickly and was constantly glancing back at toward the orchard.